Fray Bentos is God! wrote:SheffieldSaddler wrote:Fray Bentos is God! wrote:He's cheated but I'm not going to get moralistic about it.
This penalty goal is a nonsense and refs would get stoned if they gave one of these and the shot was then found to be off target? How would one referee a goalbound shot that went in off of a post or crossbar?
Like the article said - if Gyan had have scored, there would have been no attempt at getting a penalty goal into the rule book.
12 yards and around 190 square feet of goal to aim at... It really is not that hard, especially with the carrot of a WC semi at the end of it.
The penalty goal would be awarded if the player is on the line and deliberately handles the ball to stop it going in. So the shot would be on target in order for the player to do it in the first place.
Of course its so easy to score a penalty. If it was as easy as you make out, why not just award the goal and stop penalties altogether. :roll:
Ok, where do you draw the mark? Guy wails his arms at a shot when he's on the yard line? What about the penalty spot? It's still in the box and it's still blocking the shot.
What if that shot, given as a "penalty goal" were to be judged off target after analysis? Then you open a whole can of cack which noone has the answer to.
Penalties aren't hard. As Sam says, if the same thing happened with a few minutes left to go we wouldn't be having this discussion. But it happened with the last kick of time.
As I said in my post "The penalty goal would be awarded if the player is on the line and deliberately handles the ball to stop it going in. So the shot would be on target in order for the player to do it in the first place.".
That is where I would draw the line, the line that says the ball would have crossed the line if the player had not have handled it.
If the player is on 6 yard line and handles the ball, and the ball was going in, yes, a penatly goal would be awarded.
I would hope we would have camera technology as well. so we would be able to analyis in seconds. I am sure you must agree this technology is required now.
You cannot say how hard a penalty is until you are in the said position. Like players say and the tv presenters, you can practice as much as you like, but until you are in that situattion with the difference pressures involved, you cannot say it is easy.
Even the best penalty takers miss, ask Super Frank.